The Edge of the South : life in nineteenth-century Virginia /
Ayers, Edward L.,1953-
Willis, John C.,1961-
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,
1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : The edge of the South / Edward L. Ayers -- "Pledges of our love" : friendship, love, and marriage among the Virginia gentry, 1800-1825 / Melinda S. Buza -- From the dictates of pride to the paths of righteousness : slave honor and Christianity in antebellum Virginia / John C. Willis -- The plain folk of Orange : land, work, and society on the eve of the Civil War / T. Lloyd Benson -- Civil War desertion from a black belt regiment : an examination of the 44th Virginia Infantry / Kevin Conley Ruffner -- From slavery to freedom : Hickory Hill, 1850-80 / Gregg L. Michel -- The exploration of freedom in black Petersburg, Virginia, 1865-1902 / Lawrence L. Hartzell -- "Saratoga of the South" : tourism in Luray, Virginia, 1878-1905 / Elizabeth Atwood -- Big Stone Gap : the new South, 1880-1900 / Robert Weise -- Putting politics aside : Virginia Democrats and voter apathy in the era of disfranchisement / Beth Barton Schweiger -- "Love makes memory eternal" : the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, 1897-1920 / Angie Parrott -- Conclusion : if all the South were Virginia / Edward L. Ayers.